poet - e.e.cummings

While attending NJIT - The New Jersey Institute of Technology's I took a literature course from a FANTASTIC professor, Prof. Rob Friedman

e.e.cummings

next to of course god america i

"next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country 'tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb thy sons acclaim thy glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voice of liberty be mute?" He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water

`e.e.cummings`
next to of course god america i
"next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country 'tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb thy sons acclaim thy glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voice of liberty be mute?" He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water

As a final project for Lit 453 - American Literature, I did a reading of cummings's next to of course god america i and set some sound-effects in the background.

The text of the poem is above and the audio is here [46.6 secs - 0.98mb] [11,025Hz-16bit-PCM-mono .wav file]
My original introduction is available here [19.9 secs - 213kb] [11,025Hz-8bit-PCM-mono .wav file]

I "lifted" the text of the poem from Daniel Kies's e.e.cummings web page at The College of DuPage